Blunt abdominal trauma in childhood has always been full of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that have tested the clinical and radiological skills of pediatric surgeons and radiologists. Despite the guidelines and the studies carried out so far,...
Background/Objectives: The incidence of dysrhythmia after blunt thoracic trauma varies in the literature from 8–75%, and the complication rate from these dysrhythmias is not well studied. The aims of this study are to (1) identify the incidence...
Traumatic aortic regurgitation (AR) is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. We described the case of a 35-year-old male who presented to our hospital with shortness of breath 7 years after sustaining blunt chest trauma associated with a motorcy...
Introduction: Detection of blunt traumatic diaphragm injury (TDI) can be challenging in the absence of surgical exploration. Our objective is to study the mechanisms of injury and detection modes for patients with blunt TDI. Methods: This is a single...
Background: Blunt carotid injury (BCI) in pediatric trauma is quite rare. Due to the low number of cases, only a few reports and studies have been conducted on this topic. This review will discuss how frequent BCI/blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI)...
New threats are a challenge for the design and manufacture of modern combat helmets. These helmets must satisfy a wide range of impact velocities from ballistic impacts to blunt impacts. In this paper, we analyze European Regulation ECE R22.05 using...
Background: The complications associated with Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) are well-known. However, blunt injuries regarding MD have not been widely described in the literature. This was the reason for undertaking research on MD lesions. Material...
Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) is a potentially fatal condition that needs prompt recognition and expedited management. Clinical manifestations of BTAI are not straight forwarding and may be misdiagnosed. The grade of aortic injury is an importa...
Delayed diagnosis and intervention of blunt bowel and mesenteric injury (BBMI) is a hazard because of poor prognosis. Computed tomography (CT) is the standard imaging tool to evaluate blunt abdominal trauma (BAT). However, a high missed diagnosis rat...
Background: Blunt thoracic trauma possesses unique physiopathological traits due to the complex interaction of immune and coagulation systems in the lung tissue. Hemogram-based ratios such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte (PL...
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Blunt use (co-use of tobacco and marijuana) is a growing phenomenon among youth and disproportionately affects minority populations. LGBT+ populations are significantly more likely to use marijuana and tobacco, but this relationship has yet to be exa...
The lack of established diagnostic criteria makes diagnosing blunt cardiac injury difficult. We investigated the factors associated with blunt cardiac injury using the Japan Trauma Data Bank (JTDB) in a multicenter observational study of blunt trauma...
The efficacy and safety of laparoscopy for blunt trauma remain controversial. This systemic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the usefulness of laparoscopy in blunt trauma. The PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases were searched up to 23 Fe...
The management of blunt abdominopelvic trauma with combined hemoperitoneum and pelvic fractures is challenging for trauma surgeons. Although angioembolization can achieve hemostasis in most visceral organ injuries and pelvic fractures after blunt abd...
Background and Objectives: Renal trauma is a significant consequence of both blunt and penetrating injuries, with management strategies having continuously evolved over recent years. This management requires careful clinical evaluation to balance the...
Background/Objectives: Trauma is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children. Traumatic diaphragm rupture (TDR) is a rare but serious injury that can be difficult to identify. The current literature includes individual case reports and s...
Punching is the main manufacturing process with high efficiency and machining accuracy used to produce the iron cores of motors. However, it usually introduces residual stress at the cutting edge and affects the magnetic properties of the iron core....
Purpose: Current guidelines on urgent thoracotomy of polytraumatized patients are based on data from perforating chest injuries. We aimed to identify predictive factors for urgent thoracotomy after chest-tube placement for blunt chest trauma in a civ...
Fibre metal laminates are utilized in lightweight structures, such as aircraft fuselages, as fibre metal laminates provide outstanding fatigue and damage tolerance capabilities, together with a reduced weight compared to monolithic metallic structure...
Objectives: Posttraumatic upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a very rare consequence of blunt liver trauma. It can be quite a diagnostic challenge for clinicians, as it can clinically manifest many weeks after the trauma or be scantily symptom...
Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) defines a relatively common finding in trauma-injured patients, seen in roughly 2.4% of trauma patients. Unrecognized and untreated complications of BCVI can include stroke and neurological deficits. Increased use...
Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) is an often underrecognized injury occurring in the carotid or vertebral arteries, associated with a risk of ischemic stroke and potential for poor neurological outcome or death. Computed tomographic angiography (C...
Spike blunt bodies are a method to reduce drag when a body moves at speeds above sound. Several numerical works based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have deeply studied fluid performance and highlighted its advantages. However, most documentat...
A high temperature is produced in the process of precision milling of titanium alloy, and the cutting temperature can be effectively reduced by placing a micro-texture on the tool surface. In order to study the milling temperature of micro-textured b...
The use of passive, active, or hybrid flow control techniques is often investigated to reduce the acoustic signature, wave drag, and aerodynamic heating associated with the supersonic flow regime. This research explores passive and hybrid flow contro...
In forensic scenarios involving homicide, human remains are often exposed to fire as a means of disposal and/or obscuring identity. Burning human remains can result in the concealment of traumatic injury, the creation of artifacts resembling injury,...
To provide scientific support for improving the muscle quality of blunt snout bream, ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography, texture analyzer, and optical electron microscopy were applied to explore the effects of respite time (0, 24, 48, and 72...
Background: The coexistence of thoracic fractures and blunt aortic injury (BAI) is potentially catastrophic and easy to be missed in acute trauma settings. Data regarding patients with thoracic fractures complicated with BAI are limited. Methods: The...
Background: In geriatric trauma patients, higher mortality rate is observed compared to younger patients. A significant portion of trauma sustained by this age group comes from low-energy mechanisms (fall from standing or sitting). We sought to inves...
To study the dynamic response of UHMW-PE composite armor under ballistic impact, two kinds of UHMW-PE composite armors are designed. Both of them are composed of UHMW-PE laminates and steel face sheets of Q235. The blunt projectile is made of 35CrMnS...
Background/Objectives: Splenic torsion is a well-known and reported clinical problem. Splenic torsions after abdominal trauma represent a small group of cases that involve surgical management. They manifest primarily as abdominal pain, and the diagno...
A new partial circulation control (PCC) method is implemented on the blunt trailing edge DU97-Flatback airfoil, and compared with the traditional full circulation control (FCC) based on numerical analysis. When the Coanda jet is deactivated, PCC has...
Background: The clinical significance of serum potassium levels at admission in patients with blunt hepatic trauma remains insufficiently defined. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and prognostic value of admission hypokalemia in this patie...
Blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) is a frequent emergency and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in spite of improved recognition, diagnosis and management. Trauma is the second largest cause of disease accounting for 16% of global bur...
This study investigated the risk factors for in-hospital mortality of severe blunt trauma patients who underwent transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE). We analysed data from the Japan Trauma Data Bank from 2009 to 2018. Patients with severe blunt...
Background/Objectives: Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) is a severe medical condition that may arise as a result of various traumas, including motor vehicle accidents and falls. The main objective of this study was to explore the role and underlying mechan...
Background: Blunt traumatic aortic injury (BTAI) is the second most common cause of death following blunt trauma, and it can affect people of all ages. The aim of this study was to evaluate age-related differences in outcomes among patients undergoin...
In this study, we propose a novel dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) energy sorting criterion that works in conjunction with the conventional DMD amplitude-frequency sorting criterion on the high-dimensional schlieren dataset of the unsteady flow of a...
Occult pneumothorax in blunt trauma patients is often diagnosed only after computed tomography because supine chest X-ray (CXR) is preferred as an initial evaluation. However, improperly managed preexisting occult pneumothorax could threaten the vita...
In this paper, the NWT600 airfoil with a thickness ratio of 60% is taken as the research object. The aerodynamic performance of the airfoil is analyzed by experiments and numerical simulations. The results simulated by various turbulence models used...
Purpose: To report a series of three patients with traumatic renal AV fistulas after blunt renal laceration. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the renal trauma cases treated in the Department of Urology of Salzburg University Clinic during a time...
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This study is aimed at investigating the influence of skull fractures on traumatic brain injury induced by blunt impact via numerous studies of head–ground impacts. First, finite element (FE) damage modeling was implemented in the skull of the...
Background: Blunt abdominal trauma in pregnancy is a medical emergency with significant maternal-fetal morbidity and mortality. Although rare, intestinal ischemia can occur as a serious abdominal complication following trauma during pregnancy. Case p...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the mechanism of high-energy blunt trauma, age and gender of patients, severity of regional and multiple injury, ventilation time, length of stay in intensive care unit and in-hospital stay, in-hospital complicat...
The generation of hydro-mechanical resonance is related to the transition of the boundary layer and the development of vortex shedding. The application effect of suction control in hydrodynamics is equally deserving of consideration as an active cont...
Background/Objectives: Blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injury is a rare but often fatal condition, typically resulting from high-energy deceleration mechanisms such as motor vehicle collisions or falls from height. Mortality can reach 80–90% at...
Forensic anthropologists play a key role in skeletal trauma analysis and commonly use macroscopic features to distinguish between trauma types. However, this approach can be challenging, particularly in cases of highly comminuted or incompletely reco...
Background: Early identification of patients requiring operative management (OM) after blunt abdominal trauma is critical, yet initial physiological signs may be nonspecific. We sought to develop and internally validate an admission-based prediction...
Background: Tracheal stenosis in children is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. We report a case of multilevel tracheal stenosis in a child who sustained blunt chest trauma in a car accident. Case Presentation: The patient is an 11-ye...
Background: Renal trauma accounts for approximately 3–5% of all trauma cases, predominantly affecting young males. The most common etiology is blunt trauma, particularly due to road traffic accidents, and it frequently occurs as part of polytra...
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